TL;DR - Fill up at a high-turnover non-TopTier or a low-turnover TopTier fuel station?
I am interested in opinions on something I've been going back and forth on in my head. I am very particular to always get diesel fuel from high-turnover places. There is a Pilot truck stop near my work that is only a few years old and ALWAYS has rigs filling up. So I have been getting fuel from there since it opened. However, reading another thread turned me on to the idea of Top Tier fuel companies. Pilot is not on that list. Any of the company names on that list either do not have a station near me or, if they do, diesel is most certainly not the primary fuel sale.
So my question to you guys is: Would it be better to get diesel from a high-turnover non-TopTier station, or a low-turnover TopTier station? Which pretty much seems to just be Costco.
Note1: I have had no problem with the fuel I've gotten from the Pilot near my work for the last two years or so. No gelling issues (with additive, of course) in -20*F weather. I have no reason to change. However, as is the usual case with the internet, I may change in light of new information or I may be searching for a problem that didn't exist for me previously.
Note2: I have been very careful about fuel since the purchase of my 6.7 Powerstroke two years ago with the horror stories of the CP4.2 pumps. So the best I could figure on doing is getting fuel at a high-turnover station and always using plenty of additive.
I am interested in opinions on something I've been going back and forth on in my head. I am very particular to always get diesel fuel from high-turnover places. There is a Pilot truck stop near my work that is only a few years old and ALWAYS has rigs filling up. So I have been getting fuel from there since it opened. However, reading another thread turned me on to the idea of Top Tier fuel companies. Pilot is not on that list. Any of the company names on that list either do not have a station near me or, if they do, diesel is most certainly not the primary fuel sale.
So my question to you guys is: Would it be better to get diesel from a high-turnover non-TopTier station, or a low-turnover TopTier station? Which pretty much seems to just be Costco.
Note1: I have had no problem with the fuel I've gotten from the Pilot near my work for the last two years or so. No gelling issues (with additive, of course) in -20*F weather. I have no reason to change. However, as is the usual case with the internet, I may change in light of new information or I may be searching for a problem that didn't exist for me previously.
Note2: I have been very careful about fuel since the purchase of my 6.7 Powerstroke two years ago with the horror stories of the CP4.2 pumps. So the best I could figure on doing is getting fuel at a high-turnover station and always using plenty of additive.
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